One Simple App Can Save Your Child's Life.

No parent thinks, "This can happen to me." But as too many have learned, the hard way, it can. It may be a change in routine or a sleep-deprived and overloaded memory. Even the most conscientious and loving parent can forget a child out of sight in the back of the car, with a potentially fatal outcome. The Kars4Kids Safety app is designed to alert drivers when they leave their cars to remember there is a baby in the backseat. So you can drive with peace of mind knowing we’ve got your back.

What Kind of Parent Forgets a Baby?

Lisa McDonald, a computer scientist, was a responsible adult and a proud mother, just like most parents. She was also exhausted and under stress on the morning she inexplicably forgot to drop her toddler, Kenny, off at his daycare, just like most parents who forget a child in the car. Kenny slept peacefully while Lisa locked the car and walked into her office, leaving him to die a slow, heart wrenching death. The years since have been a living hell for Lisa, left to face the unimaginable tragedy that resulted from an involuntary failing of her working memory.

The Truth Hurts: Scary Stats and Facts

Awareness of the dangers of forgetting a baby in a hot car is the first step to prevention. Even with your car windows open two inches wide, the temperature inside the car can reach lethal degrees. And it doesn’t even take long: every 10-20 minutes, the internal temperature of the car rises 20 degrees. That means that you only have to forget your baby for under an hour to have fatal consequences.

618

Approximate number of US heatstroke deaths of children left in cars since 1998.

109°

The temperature the inside of a car can reach within 15 minutes in the summer months.

52

Percent of heatstroke deaths in cars as a result of someone forgetting a child is in the car.

104°

Temperature at which a child’s internal organs begin to shut down.

Remember Your Child Every Time You Leave The Car.

You can forget where you left your car keys or your glasses. But no one imagines a scenario in which one forgets the most important possession of all: your baby. With the Kars4Kids Safety app, the alarm goes off when you and your phone leave the car, so that even with your baby out of sight in the backseat, you’ll never let your baby down.

Kars4Kids Safety App - Getting Started

Once you’ve downloaded Kars4Kids Safety app, the app should scan for a Bluetooth device. If it doesn’t, check the phone’s setting. Bluetooth mode should be in the “on” position.
Once the Bluetooth device’s identification number appears on your phone’s screen, select the device and “Connect.”

Customize the App

Select the cog located in the right-hand corner of your phone’s screen. In the drop-down menu, there are three options: Baby Info, Advance Settings, and Activation Method.

Baby Info

Kars4Kids Safety app lets you customize the app with your child’s name and photo.

Touch “Baby Name” and type in your child’s name.

Touch the “Photo” option, touch the “+” sign. The app gives you a choice
You can take a photo with the camera option which will insert the photo directly into the “Photo” option; or, you can select and upload a photo from the phone’s.

Touch “Baby Info” to collapse the menu.

Advance Settings

Kars4Kids Safety app, by default, uses your phone’s basic ringtone. You can choose either a ring tone in your phone’s pool of sounds; or, you can make your own recording. To select an alternative ring tone, touch “Notification Sound” and select one of the ring tone files. To record a notification sound, touch the red button and record a sound. To listen to your recording, touch the replay button ( ). Set the volume level. To activate vibrate mode with notification, set “vibrate” mode to “on.”
After you set up the notification sounds, touch the Advance Settings bar to collapse the menu.

Activation Mode

The Kars4Kids Safety App gives you three activation settings: Always Enabled, Time Frame , or Notification.

Always Enabled

In this mode, the alert is always on when connected to Bluetooth.

Time Frame

In this mode, you can set up one or many different time frames when you think you’ll be in your car. To set up the time frames, touch “Time Frame.” Touch the “+” button, and enter the starting time and ending time. Touch "Done" when the time frame is configured.

Notification

This method issues a non-intrusive notification when your phone connects to the car and gives you the option to turn on the reminder or simply ignore the notification

The Kars4Kids Safety app is designed as an emergency back-up to careful parental and adult monitoring, not as a substitute for such monitoring. Electronic applications, such as Kars4Kids Safety do fail. Always perform a visual check for your children and do not rely on Kars4Kids Safety as your sole safety check.